Flashpoint

transcribed by: thomas hassler
album: DEMANUFACTURE
Dropped-D tuning (D, A, D, G, B, E)

LEGEND:

        *    -- palm-mute
        H    -- hit-on
        P    -- pull-off
        ~~~~ -- vibrato
        A.H. -- Artificial Harmonic
        N.H. -- Natural Harmonic

Upbeat, faster speed

Intro with studio sounds, drums, 
bass, and then guitar comes in 
doubled
by sythnthesizers

Riff A:

|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|----------6-----------6-6--------
|--0-0---0-6---0-0---0-6-6---0-0--
   * *   *     * *   *       * *  

||--------------------| 
||--------------------| 
||--------------------| 
||--------------------| 
||---6-----------6-6--| 
||-0-6---0-0---0-6-6--| 
 *     * *   *        

Riff B:

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|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|----------6-----------6-6--------
|--0-0---0-6-----------6-6---0-0--
   * *   *                   * *  

||--------------------| 
||--------------------| 
||--------------------| 
||--------------------| 
||---6-----------6-6--| 
||-0-6---------0-6-6--| 
 *           *        

Riff C:

|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|----------------------6-6--------
|----------------------6-6--------
                       * *        

||--------------------| 
||--------------------| 
||--------------------| 
||--------------------| 
||---------------6-6--| 
||---------------6-6--| 
               * *    

Riff D:

|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|-1--1--1--1--1--1--1--111--1--1--
|-1--1--1--1--1--1--1--111--1--1--

||--------------------| 
||--------------------| 
||--------------------| 
||--------------------| 
||1--1--1--1--1--111--| 
||1--1--1--1--1--111--| 

Riff E:

|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|-0--0--0--0--0--0--0--000--0--0--
|-0--0--0--0--0--0--0--000--0--0--

||------------------------| 
||------------------------| 
||------------------------| 
||------------------------| 
||0--0--0--0--0--0---1---3| 
||0--0--0--0--0--0---1---3| 

|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|-0--0--0--0--0--0--0--000--0--0--
|-0--0--0--0--0--0--0--000--0--0--

||------------------------| 
||------------------------| 
||------------------------| 
||------------------------| 
||0--0--0--0--0--0---1---3| 
||0--0--0--0--0--0---1---3| 

|-------------| 
|-------------| 
|-------------| 
|-------------| 
|--1---3---4--| 
|--1---3---4--| 


Riff F:

Let chords ring out
|--------------------------------
|--------------------------------
|--------------------------------
|-6----8-5----8-4----8-3----1----
|-6----8-5----8-4----8-3----1----
|-6----8-5----8-4----8-3----1----

||---------------------------| 
||---------------------------| 
||---------------------------| 
||6----8-10----9----(6)--(5)-| 
||6----8-10----9----(6)--(5)-| 
||6----8-10----9----(6)--(5)-| 



Song Structure:

Riff A 2 times
Riff B 2 times
Riff A 2 times
Riff C 2 times
Riff A 2 times
Riff A 2 times
Riff D 2 times
Riff E 1 time
Riff A 4 times
Riff F 1 time
(bass then plays harmony in Riff F 
under Burton's soaring vocals)
Riff F 1 time (doubled by another 
track of guitar playing the same
harmony only set to the snare drum's
 rhythm)
Riff D 2 times
Riff E 1 time
Riff A 2 times, ending on two blunt 
D5 chord hits